How to know when a blog post was published.

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I'm working on giving a website i bought a better ranking by ensuring that none of the previous posts were copied (I'm finding some were).
My problem is I can just do a google search for a bit of the content, and I'll see another website using it, but it doesn't have a date on it, so i have no way of knowing if they scraped my content, or if the previous owner took theirs.

Any thoughts on how to know the publishing date of a blog post that doesn't show a date??
#search engine optimization #blog #post #published
  • Google Alerts

  • Am I reading you right? because it sounds like you stole the previous owners content and are now wondering if what you stole was stolen from you (or reclaimed by the rightful owner).

    Ummm....what does it matter? You going to call the cops? and umm say what?
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    • Banned
      Sounds like OP bought an established site?
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    • Yes the content police. I hear they work closely with the sarcasm squad.
  • I'm now also finding that analytics for individual pages that I assume Google sees as duplicate content will show the significant drop in visitors after the May update, so I'm going through the top 100 at least this way to see.
  • Nothing is going to work. Even if the pages have a date on them, the dates can be manipulated. I make posts on Wordpress sites all the time and backdate them.
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    • Good point. Google needs an 'indexed date' available eh.

      I'm just going to go with the pages that look like they plummeted in traffic since May and start there assuming Google knows what is copied content.
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    How to know when a blog post was published.

    I'm working on giving a website i bought a better ranking by ensuring that none of the previous posts were copied (I'm finding some were). My problem is I can just do a google search for a bit of the content, and I'll see another website using it, but it doesn't have a date on it, so i have no way of knowing if they scraped my content, or if the previous owner took theirs.